Oshkosh camping list? (Planning for next year)

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:49:59 GMT, john smith wrote:
As for individual cooking, all one really needs is a one-liter pot, a
single-burner stove, a spork, a cup, a plate and a spatula. Each
additional person requires a cup, plate and spork. Pretty simple, really.
You can do a lot with a single pot and boiled water.
Boil bag rice or instant mashed potatos, frozen vegetables and a meat of
your choice will make a balanced meal in less than 30-minutes.

But that would mean that you would have to leave your BBQ pit home...
For us Texans, that's an unforgivable sin...

Montblack wrote:
("Margy Natalie" wrote)

The ones in Vintage have full time attendents with buckets and
wet-vacs. The doors leak and they are used constantly for hours on
end. The person cleaning the women's shower this year was
particularly good at keeping it fairly dry.



The one south of the ultralights, where the seaplane bus picks you up,
was nice. I checked it out on day.

The design was odd though.

Two doors were on either end of the trailer, along one wall. Connecting
the doors was a large hallway that ran the length of the trailer, along
the outside wall. In the middle of the space (facing the other outside
wall) were the showers - maybe four stalls on each side of a center
entrance, off the hallway. The other long wall of the trailer had
benches to dry off and get dressed.

Here's my thought: Why not showers on the two "outside" walls? The wide
empty hallway running the length of the trailer, on one outside wall,
was much wasted space, IMHO.

Anyway, that was my first impression of the shower trailer. Clean, and
puzzling. g


Montblack


If you've ever shared that "long, empty, hallway" with 10 people getting
dressed you will find it's not that big! Showers on both sides would
leave no space to get dressed and/or lead to an oversized trailer.

Margy

("Margy Natalie" wrote)
If you've ever shared that "long, empty, hallway" with 10 people getting
dressed you will find it's not that big! Showers on both sides would
leave no space to get dressed and/or lead to an oversized trailer.


Hmm? I thought that's what the space in front of the showers was used for? I
was thinking in terms of the YMCA - lockers on both sides, benches in the
middle.

O = Open space
S = Shower stalls (facing the open space)
H = Hallway

OSH ...door
OSH
OSH
OSH
O. .H
OSH
OSH
OSH
OSH ...door

When my pics get back from California, I'll have to take a closer look. Yes!
I took pics of the (empty) shower trailer.


Montblack
I showered in the dorms every night.

Montblack wrote:
("Margy Natalie" wrote)

If you've ever shared that "long, empty, hallway" with 10 people
getting dressed you will find it's not that big! Showers on both
sides would leave no space to get dressed and/or lead to an oversized
trailer.



Hmm? I thought that's what the space in front of the showers was used
for? I was thinking in terms of the YMCA - lockers on both sides,
benches in the middle.

O = Open space
S = Shower stalls (facing the open space)
H = Hallway

OSH ...door
OSH
OSH
OSH
O. .H
OSH
OSH
OSH
OSH ...door

When my pics get back from California, I'll have to take a closer look.
Yes! I took pics of the (empty) shower trailer.


Montblack
I showered in the dorms every night.
Oh, the open part in the middle. If you wait until someone is working
you will find out that there is a panel between the showers, it's not
really open. Behind the panel are the mechanical systems.

Margy

Jay Honeck wrote:
of convenience (hey, it was there), not taste, as the water at OSH is
really quite excellent -- as long as you avoid the water fountains in
the South 40, which use water apparently from iron-laden wells.

As Paul mentioned, I'm pretty sure that the airport draws water from
several different sources, as there were differences in quality
depending on what fountains you used.

Where we were situated the water was particularly bad. Drinkable, but
not great.

"Montblack" wrote

I showered at night 10pm. No lines, no fuss.

In the AM, I my brush teeth, put on clean clothes, my Tilly hat, and head
out for another day of sweat and sunscreen.

Yep; that is my M.O., also. The explorers share the warbirds's showers, and
they tend to be packed in the AM, and sometimes can be a bit "chilly." g
--
Jim in NC